Nuclear Waste and Native America: The MRS Siting Exercise

Drs. Gowda & Easterling provide cross-cultural perspectives on issues of risk perception, equity and policy as they affect nuclear waste storage on Native American sites

Embryological studies inMecardonia procumbens (Miller) small

Sporogeneses, development of gametophytes, endosperm and embryo ofMecardonia procumbens (Miller) Small have been described. The wall of the microsporangium consists of an epidermis, an endothecium, a middle layer and a glandular tapetum. The development of the anther conforms to the dicotyledonous type. The tapetal cells become binucleate and the endothecial cells acquire fibrous thickenings in later stages. Quadripartition of the microspore mother cells is simultaneous. Pollen grains are shed at two-celled stage and are tricolpate. Development of the female gametophyte is of Polygonum type. Middle part of the gametophyte is surrounded by an endothelium. Endosperm is ofab initio cellular type. Chalazal and micropylar haustoria are organised. Both the micropylar and chalazal haustoria are four-celled and this is the first report in the tribe Gratioleae. Embryo development is of Onagrad type. The cell ‘d’ functions as the hypophyseal cell

Exact Solutions for the Incompressible Electrically Conducting Viscous Flow between Two Moving Parallel Disks in Unsteady Magneto Hydrodynamic and Stability Analysis

The main interest of the present investigation is to generate exact solutions to the steady Navier-Stokes equations for the incompressible Newtonian viscous electrically conducting fluid flow motion and stability due to disks moving towards each other or in opposite directions with a constant velocity. Making use of the analytic solution, the description of possible conditions of motion is based on the exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. Both stationary and transient cases have been considered. The stability of motion is analyzed for different initial perturbations. Different types of stability were found according to whether the disks moved towards or away from each other

Extractive spectrophotometric determination of trace amounts of molybdenum using thiocyanate and ethylisobutrazine hydrochloride

An extractive spectrophotometric method for the determination of trace amounts of molybdenum in hydrochloric acid medium has been developed using potassium thiocyanate and ethylisobutrazine hydrochloride in the presence of ascorbic acid. The ternary complex that is extracted into chloroform has a molar absorptivity of 3.86 × 104 l mol–1 cm–1 at 460 nm. Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration range 0.05–5.6 p.p.m. The complex is stable for over 1 week. The effects of acid and reagent concentrations, time, temperature and foreign ions were investigated. The method has been applied to the determination of molybdenum in steel samples

Purification and characterization of a myotoxic phospholipase-a2 from indian cobra (Naja-Naja-Naja) venom

Purification and characterization of a myotoxic phospholipase A2 from Indian cobra (Naja naja naja) venom. Toxicon27, 861–873, 1989.—A major phospholipase A2 (NN-XIII-PLA2) which constitutes 20% of the whole Naja naja naja venom was purified to homogeneity on CM-Sephadex C-25 column chromatography. NN-XIII-PLA2 is a basic protein with a mol. wt of 11,200 by SDS-PAGE. This enzyme has low enzymatic activity but is more toxic to mice than the whole venom. The ld50 value (i.p.) of NN-XIII-PLA2 is 2.4 mg/kg body weight (whole venoms ld50 is 2.8 mg/kg body weight). It induces neurotoxic-like signs in experimental animals. It induces myotoxicity when injected i.m. into the thigh muscle of mice and edema when injected into the foot pads of mice. This enzyme has a fluorescence maxima between 310–316 nm which is typical of tyrosine residues